Longest you have waited for a custom order?

[Buck_86]

6 months from mayhem during Covid and just recently waited 5 months from a smaller shaper and I think he forgot all about it and got it done in a week

 

[casa_mugrienta]

4 years in and Rich randomly calls one day to meet up and shape the board. I get there and it's already roughly cut. He spent another 4 hours fine tuning it and it's an amazing board, unlike the other Speedialers I've seen.

Glad the board was a good one...but I dunno man, that seems a little insulting.

Like the ultimate show of arrogance.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Turnaround times are pretty quick right now.

Not a good thing IMO.

Fastest was SK, 1.5 weeks

 

[vanrysss]

Turnaround times are pretty quick right now.

Not a good thing IMO.

Fastest was SK, 1.5 weeks

Curious, who's got really short turn around atm?

 

[freeride76]

Turnaround times are pretty quick right now.

Not a good thing IMO.

Fastest was SK, 1.5 weeks

Why not good?

 

[EastCoastBrah]

I may have the worst discrepancy between quote and delivery.

Quoted 4 weeks, took 5 months.

 

[EastCoastBrah]

For fvcks sakes these aren't babies.

Can we all just switch over to months for simplicity please? Rounding up or down is fine.



P.S. If you're telling me your baby's age, do it in months as well.

P.P.S. I don't want to hear about your baby.

well, some shapers deliver in days so months isn't a precise enough measurement

 

[EastCoastBrah]

Longer than 2 weeks I’m gettin annoyed.

last 2 customs took 1.5 and 2 weeks respectively. full color resin tint. i’ll wait 3 wks max for a custom now

who you getting from delivering so quickly?

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Why not good?

Despite wanting less surfers in the water I think it's good for surfing when shapers have steady business.

I think the craftsman aspect of surfing (despite the machine) and local shapers and glassers are important.

Relationship with customers, direct feedback, local wave knowledge, etc.

Like when Gunther made that board for you there was meaning in that human interaction, wouldn't you say? The whole act of going to his workshop to look for a board and then the way things worked out. A little story that probably played over in your mind a few times since.

When this is gone and 95% of boards are being made in Xinghuazou, China... I think it will be surfing's biggest turn for the worst.

 

[doc_flavonoid]

Despite wanting less surfers in the water I think it's good for surfing when shapers have steady business.

I think the craftsman aspect of surfing (despite the machine) and local shapers and glassers are important.

Relationship with customers, direct feedback, local wave knowledge, etc.

Like when Gunther made that board for you there was meaning in that human interaction, wouldn't you say? The whole act of going to his workshop to look for a board and then the way things worked out. A little story that probably played over in your mind a few times since.

When this is gone and 95% of boards are being made in Xinghuazou, China... I think it will be surfing's biggest turn for the worst.

maybe more a sign of peoples confidence in the economy and a robust used market as covid kooks work through the trial and error of board buying, than firewire/slater/et al pos pop outs

 

[oeste858]

last 2 customs took 1.5 and 2 weeks respectively. full color resin tint. i’ll wait 3 wks max for a custom now

Those Tommy Stumps or your Lovemachine a-hole domestic popouts?

 

[freeride76]

Ah gotcha- I think shapers around here have good loyal clientele and it;'s mostly the big guys or the really in demand "hipster" shapers whose wait times blow up and then shrink as demand is restored back to normal levels.

 

[Havoc]

who you getting from delivering so quickly?

that guy who makes really good a$$hole twinzers. got 2 of em, getting a third soon

 

[facebite]

Aleutian Juice... 6 months. He let me know what was going on and I was happy to wait.

Roberts... 11 days. My first Roberts, picking it up this weekend. Psyched!

 

[b.r.]

Still waiting

 

[Maz]

About a month, maybe 2. My Keogh was ready in about 2weeks.

 

[paunch23]

Curious, who's got really short turn around atm?

Kazuma is fast

 

[Swiftvelo]

18 months from Manny Caro from his days up north. At first the phone would be picked up, stopped after six months. When is was picked up, told not to bother him and yelled at. Had two trips planed that the board wasn’t ready for. Was told six months. When it did show up it was the wrong color and had bubble in the glass from moonlight. Called Manny up and got yelled at again. “ I put free pin lines on it. “. He never did answer a call from me again. Learned a lot during that process though.

 

[Goodfish]

I waited about 22 months for a Lovelace and 18 months for a couple of MOTEs.

 

[dietz]

Roberts came to the North East on a taking orders tour. I met him and he suggested a Vindicator model. Asked him how long to build the board. He said 4 weeks. I looked him in the eye and said, 'no, really - how long?". He didn't back down and insisted even more emphatically that it would only be 4 weeks.

After 8 weeks, I called him. Told him I don't normally nag shapers, but that he did say four weeks. He had no explanation, no apology, said board was at glassers... After 3 months total, I got the board. Decent board, but by then hurricane season had come and gone.